Steamer Sandwiches! Except That It’s You That Gets “Steamed”

WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS if your personal tastes tend toward mild foods.

This is for hot sausage sandwich lovers only. Your favorite icy cold beer goes well with this sandwich. It’s very hot peppery – but you personally control just how hot peppery it gets so you can enjoy what you are eating.

Start out with enough crisp heavy bread rolls for a sandwich serving for each person – Italian is good. French bread baguette will work if you can’t find other rolls you like, but a heavy crispy bread seems to work best.

About 1/3 pound medium, hot or extra hot, loose sausage per sandwich. Shape the sausage to fit the shape of the bun but bigger than the bun as it will shrink. Fry until well-done.

Cut enough sweet onion (thin slices) and ½ inch strips of green bell pepper to make a hearty serving for each sandwich. Fry these in olive oil and butter until well done and soft.

Lightly toast buns in the toaster oven and get ready to assemble the sandwiches.

For an especially hot, hot sausage sandwich, drizzle the sausage, onion and green pepper with a tasty red hot sauce—but carefully and only after you’ve determined you would still like more hot pepper taste. A slice of hot pepper cheese (or not) is another option to add to the sandwich.

My dear Aunt Violet (a great Italian woman who just loved to cook – even made her own spaghetti noodles from scratch) passed away many years ago, but I am certain she would have chosen the extra hot sausage with the addition of red hot sauce right along with me.

Serve a nice cold potato salad on the side and of course, pass out that super icy cold beer and enjoy.